182 Pages
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Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1998, Easels of Utopia presents a discussion of art's duration and contingency within the avant garde's aesthetic parameters, which throughout this century have constructed, influenced, and informed our definitions of modernity. In this context the book reads Umberto Boccioni's Futurism as reminiscent of Thomist realism; proposes Caravaggism's historical relevance to the... Read more
Acknowledgements
Modus Operandi
Part I: Contexts of Quidditas
1. Name, Tragedy, Farce. The Story so Far
2. Searching in Absolute. Aquinas, Bergson, Boccioni
3. Ethical Plasticism. Boccioni, Carrà, Marinetti
4. Myth, Duration. Croce, Sorel, Bergson
Part II: Utterance of Fact
5. Re-Beauty. Carrà, Duns Scotus, De Chirico
6. Caravaggist Genealogies. Caravaggio, Hegel
7. Aeneas’s Guise. Marini, Bacon
8. Rehearsals. Spencer, Guttuso
Bibliography
Biography
John Baldacchino is the Director of the Arts Institute at the University of Madison-Winsconsin, where he is also a Professor of Arts Education.
